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1 Cor 13:4-7

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.


Week two in our daily devotional series on love, for our sixth thing we will look at concerning love, is something that love does not do.

does not behave rudely

When you think of rude, what do you think of?
Maybe someone cutting ahead of you in line, or taking your parking space at the grocery store?
Maybe someone cutting you off on the freeway?
Maybe it's someone who says something bad about you?

These are a few examples of behaving rudely, and the opposite of rude would be polite.
It would be letting someone go ahead of you in line or offering then that parking space at the grocery store.
It would be slowing down and letting that person get in front of you on the freeway.
But what about that last one? Maybe it's someone who says something bad about you?
How can you be polite in this?
Sad to say, but most often it is us doing this and not someone else.
How so?
We are quick to get angry with someone and under our breath whisper a little snide remark about them.
It's usually so faint that the other person can't make out what you said and they ask you to repeat it and you just say, "forget about it" .
But they don't because they know what you had to say was not something good or you would have repeated it to them.

Jesus was being beaten and crucified for something He didn't do; yet the bible says:

  • Isaiah 53:7
    • He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
    Yet He opened not His mouth;
    He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
    And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    So He opened not His mouth.

    How many things could have Jesus said about each one of these person to show how bad they really were, and they would have been true?
    Yet, what did Jesus tell the Father about them?

  • Luke 23:34 Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.


    • Love does not look for the faults in people, love looks past the faults and treat others with kindness.
    In heaven you and your spouse or friend will be there for all eternity. Would you run up to God and tell him about all the bad things he or she has done, or would you want to tell God about the good they have done?

    So if you wouldn't treat someone rudely in front of God in heaven, why are you doing it in front of God here on this earth?

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